employee
She was fired after she was caught stealing from her employer.她因偷雇主的东西时当场被抓而遭解雇。
He gets paid a good wage, because he works for a fair employer.
It's about time employers realized that staff who are happy work more efficiently.
Many employers consider hands-on experience to be just as useful as academic qualifications.
I'm very lucky - I love my job and Geoff really is the ideal employer.

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Bosses & managers
administration
anti-management
branch manager
C-suite
CAO
co-president
comptroller
coo
coordinator
crew chief
industrialist
layer
line manager
majordomo
management
silent partner
slave driver
sleeping partner
subdirector
submanager

employer | American Dictionary

employer
noun[ C ]
us/ɪmˈplɔɪ·ər/
a person, company, or organization that pays people to work for them:
The Air Force is the largest employer in this area.

employer | Business English

employer
noun[ C ]
 HRuk /ɪmˈplɔɪər/us
a person, company, or organization that employs people:
big/large/major employerThe telecommunications giant currently provides over 2000 jobs and is the largest employer in the region.
private sector/public sector employerPublic sector employers account for the majority of jobs in health and education.
a previous/current/new employer
potential/prospective/future employerThe purpose of a CV is to reveal your accomplishments and qualifications to a potential employer.
work for/have an employerStatutory maternity pay is available to those who have worked for their employer for at least 26 weeks.

Examples of employer

employer
The same was not true, and was not supposed to be true, in urban areas where the need for employer housing was greater.
Another of the detainees was wanted for an assassination attempt on a local employer.
I argue here that it is reasonable to view employers as proxy decisionmakers for their employees.
As will now be demonstrated, conflicts of interest between workers and their employers are a crucial dynamic of the political economy of the daladala sector.
For their productivity mission, and thus for imposing managerial absolutism, employers also relied on the sweeping offensive and sympathy lockouts.
Since 1990, municipalities became teachers' employers and organisers of school activities, and became responsible for allocating resources to schools.
However, this paper has shown that some types of employer are able to offer better working conditions than others, despite enjoying similar bargaining power.
American employers did not eliminate the union shop, but they skewed its dominion.
Moreover, 87.8 % of the people considered in this study are not entitled in plans from an earlier employer.
In some industries bargains between employers and employed are made in one room for many counties together.
Nevertheless, in contrast to the 1920s, the employers refrained from direct attacks on the union, and the framework of collective bargaining was never repudiated.
The survey asked these workers a broad assortment of questions to gauge their understanding and appreciation of their employer-sponsored retirement plans.
We also estimate how greater plan appreciation influences employees' desire to continue working for their current employers.
For artists in other provincial troupes, social hostility rendered it largely impossible for them to exert any influence over their employers.
On behalf of an underpaid worker or a group of workers, it will enjoin an employer.
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Collocations withemployer

employer

These are words often used in combination with employer.

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current employer
An alternative approach to computing actual turnover is measuring employees' desire to stay with their currentemployer.
employer mandate
This article examines the origins and evolution of the idea of an employermandate and labor's entanglements with the institutions of the private welfare state.
future employer
I am also interested in the pension rights and conditions of service that are offered by any futureemployer.
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